I was fishing in Edmonds today. We picked up a few fish, but more shakers. One of the shakers, in particular, I found very interesting. As I looked at the fish's back it wasn't your regular silver color. It was a bright turquois green. Has anybody caught a fish like this? Any idea why the color is so different?

mint chum?
you sure it was a silver?

aren't a few hatcheries messing with dye instead of clipping?

I have caught large mouth bass in there.

I was going to take a picture because I knew I was gonna be asking, but I didn't want to keep it out of the water that long.

I'm 99% certain it was a silver......

cut from alaska fisheries description


General description: Ocean fresh chum salmon are metallic greenish-blue on the dorsal surface (top) with fine black speckles. They are difficult to distinguish from sockeye and coho salmon without examining their gills or caudal fin scale patterns. Chum have fewer but larger gillrakers than other salmon. After nearing fresh water, however, the chum salmon changes color-particularly noticeable are vertical bars of green and purple, which give them the common name, calico salmon. The males develop the typical hooked snout of Pacific salmon and very large teeth which partially account for their other name of dog salmon. The females have a dark horizontal band along the lateral line; their green and purple vertical bars are not so obvious.

That sure sounds like what I got. Thanks for the help...